Try my "old Czech recipe" - chicken with pineapple and honey. It's spicy (ginger + lot of soy sauce + pineapple + mixture of sweet honey and a lot of salt), yet tasty enough to serve it to your girlfriend's parents. You can cook it very quickly, and it's strange enough that you will sound like a cooking expert when describing how you made it.

i tried for the first time a few months ago and it was really good. It isnt nearly as greasy as beef and takes half the time to cook. I mixed it with my chili and it was phenomenal.

it depends what you use it for. it doesn't compare to beef in a burger, IMO. I wouldn't use it in a meatloaf, either(2pts beef, 1pt pork, 1pt veal). i've used ground turkey for tacos. it's probably fine for chili, too...i don't know. personal preferance, probably.

Same thing here. Ground turkey works well for tacos, chili, or other things where it's combined. I'm not a big fan of it by itself though.

Thai peanut sauce is pretty easy to make. You need peanut butter, some thai red curry paste (sold in a jar in the Asian food section of grocery stores), coconut milk (sold in a can near the thai curry paste), and a few other ingredients. You can serve it with chicken marinated and grilled/sauteed/baked/whatever, and some steamed jasmine rice. There are lots of recipes online.

If you're feeling really really adventurous, try to make some Ethiopian chicken doro wat. The hard part of that meal is getting the injera bread right. I think you can find recipes for it on recipesource.com.